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Originally posted by honeychile
I'm sorry I disappeared for so long - I don't want to look as if I'm running from the discussion, but this was one of the top two worst days I've ever had at work. *sigh* I absolutely hate racism!!!
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Sorry you have had a tough couple of days due to ignorance... At least you can come on here and I will listen to your argument and we will discuss it peacefully...
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Originally posted by honeychile
What if the only theory of mankind was based on the Big Bang theory, and suddenly, upon entry to college, the student hears about evolution for the first time? Granted, I doubt that it would happen, but wouldn't you rather have teachers have controlled discussion (or assigned reading) on each theory, rather than students picking it up on the streets?
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Okey, the way I understand it, Evolution falls under the Big Bang Theory or vice versa (I forget the order sometimes)...
The point is all these things can be readily
MEASURED, CALCULATED AND TESTED, THEN RE-TESTED A BIGILLION TIMES--either way we get the same exact result... That is the scientific process...
Now, I call myself a Christian and I do not have an internal conflict with doing my job, science and practicing my religious beliefs...
In fact, I pursued science even more--specifically pharmacogenetics because of what I read in the Bible... Now if you want to DEAL with some facts about some things in the Bible, best be prepared to understand that have the pharmacology used in the Bible are like serious hallucinogenic and psychodelic drugs... And many of those figures in the Bible were probably "high" when they saw things... I mean if I saw a burning bush, I'd probably toke up too after that...
If you read "Serpent in the Rainbow" you start to get a "picture" of old world pharmacology...
The biggest civilizations that were involved were the Egyptians that mostly found newer and newer poisons to kill folks quicker...
Like find out where the "Balm in Gilead" came from, then you begin to understand the gravity of what we are dealing with in medicine...
The only part that intrigues many scientists, including myself, is the pool at Bethesda... But even Jesus Christ told the man "do you WANT to be healed" before he healed him...
And Luke who wrote his Gospel was called a physician--as well as Joseph of Arimethia [sp?]...
Long time ago, High Priests and Priestesses were mostly the scientists at the time... The Egyptians, The Aztecs, The Chinese--maybe the Greeks and the Romans... But somehow it all got segregated with the "snake oil" mentality showed up...
So it ain't about do you have a belief in a measurement system versus a spiritual system... It's more about how come the two cannot peacefully co-exist?